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DORSET TRADING STANDARDS Village Hall Fundraising Event Old Bere Regis Photographic
Exhibition
Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service check and Was held on Saturday 28 we will have more details of how that went in December
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approve businesses so you don’t have to. Magazine. Meanwhile if anyone wants a copy of Mark Bennett’s book Bere Regis
For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or Those Bygone Days selling at £10 please email popinplace@gmail.com and we will
call 08454 040506. pass the order on to him.
To report or seek advice about problems you have Alison Bennett Chairperson 01929 472023
experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506.

Digital Switchover scams

The UK’s telephone network is changing. Between now and 2025 most telephone
providers will be moving their customers from old analogue landlines to new
upgraded landline services using digital technology. Services that rely on the old
landline system such as home phones and healthcare devices will be switched Parish Magazine Delivery Subscriptions
over.

The new network will provide a future proof, more reliable and dependable At this time of the year I send an email
broadband service that will support the UK for decades to come. notification to all those who have their magazine
The Local Government Association (LGA) says the change will be straightforward delivered each month and for whom I have an
for most people. However, they have warned that criminals are using
misinformation about the switchover to confuse people vulnerable to scams. email address.
The LGA says people who use healthcare telephony devices are particularly at
risk of being targeted by scammers, who trick victims into disclosing their personal This is the most cost effective way of advising
and financial information over the phone. Around 2 million people use these subscribers that their annual payment of £10 is
devices across the country.

The switchover is free of charge and councils and their homecare alarm providers due for 2024. Bank transfer payments are
or contractors will never ask for personal or financial information over the phone. encouraged to reduce administration, record
The LGA says it has seen keeping and to speed up the process.
reports of fraudsters calling
people claiming their bank Please ensure that I have your up to date contact
details are needed as part
of the switchover or their information and if you have never provided your
s e r v i c e w i l l b e email for this, perhaps you’d be kind enough to let
disconnected. It has also
received reports of residents me have it as soon as possible. Many thanks.
being contacted over the
phone by callers claiming to Alison - Editor - alison@culverdell.co.uk
work for the NHS, asking for
their personal information.
The LGA expects scam

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